for the specific provenance of this particular letter is sought. In essence, to read abstractly and generally if not universally is necessarily to read noncircumstantially, so it seems no coincidence that such doubt over the exact circumstances surrounding the composition of Romans exists. Now it may simply be the case that Paul composed Romans in this fashion. But if the conventional construal is incorrect in perceiving a universal soteriological discourse where Paul did not intend one,16 this approach
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